The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 11
“Where are you going, little brother?” asked one.
Who acts: you · What happens: go, ask · To what, where: little brother, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 going | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brother | punct |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 brother | amod |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 asked | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | you | little brother | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | one | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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